Compound-Complex Sentences

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Compound-Complex Sentences

• Adding Some Spice to Your Writing!

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Step One

• Step One Write a Complex Sentence
• Subordinate Clause Independent Clause
• When I come home school, I am famished
• Dont add a period quite yet! We need one more
  ingredient!

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Step Two

• Add a comma a coordinating conjunction
• When I come from school, I am famished
• ,so
• Not done cooking yet

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Step Three

• Step Three Add another independent clause after
  the comma and the coordinating conjunction!
• When I come home from school I am famished, so I
  feel like eating everything in sight.
• Now you have a masterpiece, a compound
  complex sentence!

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The Recipe!

• Dependent Clause
• When I eat beans,
• Independent Clause
• I feel a little gassy
• Comma and a coordinating conjunction
• ,and
• Independent Clause
• I smell like a toilet.
• When I eat beans, I feel a little gassy, and I
  smell like a toilet!

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But Wait.

• You could also start with a compound sentence and
  add a dependent clause.
• Bill ate tacos, and Bob ate burritos because they
  loved Taco Bell.

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Practice

• As Mom drove down the street, the driver in front
  of her slid on ice, and he hit a tree.
• When I see unicorns, I want to hug them, but
  their horn might stab me.
• Sloths are adorable animals, and I would marry
  one if it were legal in the United States.
• Underline the dependent clause 1 time
• Circle the subordinate and coordinate
  conjunctions
• Underline the 2 dependent clauses 2 times.

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Compound, Complex, or Compound Complex?

1. After I ate nine doughnuts, I decided I needed to
   go on a diet and run daily.
2. I bought a new pair of jeans from American Eagle,
   but I realized they were not my size.
3. Lob won a giant trophy, and he wanted to display
   it in his room since it was for a burping
   contest.
4. Because she never shaves her hairy pits, Gertrude
   has balls of hair flowing from her underarms, so
   her mom bought her a razor.
5. She squirted hot sauce into her cereal, but it
   made it taste nasty since hot sauce does not go
   well with Captain Crunch.